Facilities

Special facilities exist for studying the structure and properties of ice. These include:

• 8 cold-rooms for growing and characterizing ice

• uniaxial servo-hydraulic MTS testing machine (450 kN) supported by computer-based data acquisition

• true multiaxial testing system capable of providing loads of 1 MN along 3-mutually perpendicular directions, also supported by computer-based data acquisition

• in-pond servohydraulic compression frame (4 MN)

• high-speed (10,000 frames/sec) camera

• environmental scanning electron microscope with cold-stage, straining stage and electron back-scattered diffraction

• scanning force microscope and scanning/tunneling microscope

• x-ray diffractometer

• Micro CT Xray tomograph

• transmission electron microscope

• ice friction devices

• Rigsby stage

• machine shop in cold-room